Long-term problems of land contaminated by nonradioactive hazardous chemicals: sources, impacts, and countermeasures. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6503027

Baes, C F; Garten, C T; Tolbert, V R

This report examines the environmental behavior and fate of nonradioactive hazardous chemicals, methods for assessing environmental impacts, and alternatives for achieving land decontamination and cleanup. Nonradioactive hazardous chemicals can be reactive, corrosive, or toxic. Reactive chemicals may be explosive, flammable, or capable of undergoing spontaneous change upon exposure to air, water, or a mixture of other chemicals. Toxic chemicals have a high probability of being carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, or lethal to humans and wildlife. The major pathways of entry into the environment are accidents in handling and storage, industrial accidents, illegal or accidental dumping, leaching from buried toxic wastes, land treatment of waste waters, herbicide and pesticide use, and use of industrial products.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6503027
• Report Number(s): AD-A-178083/2/XAB; ORNL-6239
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AIR
CHEMICAL WASTES
CONTROL
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ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
GASES
GROUND DISPOSAL
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HERBICIDES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
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LEACHING
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MATERIALS
METALS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PESTICIDES
POLLUTION CONTROL
SEPARATION PROCESSES
STORAGE
TOXICITY
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WATER